Seville braces for more heavy rain, rental prices in Spain rise 10.9 percent year on year in October and more news on Wednesday November 5th.
Seville braces for more heavy rain
Just one week after Seville suffered major flooding as a result of the heavy rainfall that hit the city, an orange weather warning has been issued again for a significant risk of rain, storms and wind expected on Wednesday.
This follows comments by Seville mayor José Luis Sanz, who accused Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) of failing to issue a red alert last week.
According to Deputy Government Delegate in Seville, Francisco Toscano, the red alert is only activated when more than 120 litres of rain per square metre are expected in 12 hours, and this was not the case last week, so an orange alert was given instead.
For its part, Aemet has assured that it warned Seville authorities ten times of the bad incoming weather.
Nurseries in Barcelona find doors sealed amid teachers strike
Parents and teachers in several areas of Barcelona woke up on November 4th to find that the doors and locks to nurseries had been tampered with and sealed with silicone.
It is believed the actions were carried out by protesters in support of the strike by municipal nursery school workers called for on November 4th by the General Confederation of Labour union (CGT).
This prevented teachers from entering their workplaces and parents from dropping off their children.
The City Council is aware of at least 30 affected nurseries, of which only nine were able to open. In others, access was granted through back or kitchen doors.
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Rental prices in Spain rise 10.9 percent year on year in October
According to the latest report published by property portal Idealista, rental prices in Spain increased by 10.9 percent compared to the same time last year reaching €14.5/m².
A total of 51 Spanish provincial capitals have seen higher rental prices compared to October of last year, with the exception of Huesca in Aragón, where rents have fallen by 1.7 percent.
One of the most significant increases was seen in Zamora in Castilla y León where rents rose by 18.1 percent, followed by Ciudad Real in Castilla-La Mancha with an increase of 15.1 percent.
Pamplona in Navarre is the provincial capital with the smallest increase in the last year at just 0.5 percent followed by San Sebastián at 1.2 percent.
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Spanish politician’s boyfriend says prosecution leak ‘killed’ him
The partner of a Spanish right-wing figurehead on Tuesday accused the top prosecutor of “destroying” his reputation by leaking confidential legal information, in a trial rattling the leftist government.
The case against Álvaro García Ortiz — the first serving attorney general to stand trial in Spanish history — is one of several legal affairs dogging Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s minority coalition.
The complainant is Alberto González Amador, a businessman under investigation for alleged tax fraud who is the partner of the Madrid region’s leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a darling of the Spanish right.
In 2024, media reported based on leaked correspondence that González Amador had proposed a plea deal with the public prosecutor’s office in which he would admit to the alleged offences in exchange for avoiding a trial and jail.
Ayuso’s conservative Popular Party accuses the Socialist-appointed Garcia Ortiz of organising the leak to damage her, which he denied on the trial’s opening day on Monday.
“With the publication of the email, I became the confessed criminal of the Kingdom of Spain! I was dead!” Gonzalez Amador said.
García Ortiz “had publicly killed me. He had completely destroyed me”, continued González Amador, saying he “went off the assumption that this was going to be used against my partner”.